The winners in Iraq: Tahran, Maliki-Muqtada cohabitation and the Shii'ite clerics in Iraq....while the Pentagon fights tooth and nail to keep some military bases in Iraq; "most of the new oil will be exploited by Chinese, Russian and Asian companies, not US Big Oil; the final nail in the coffin of the neo-conservative fantasy of a Greater Middle East as an American lake."

Geithner continues to show that he's a shill for Wall Street.

Labor doing the heavy lifting for election....will Dems return the favor.   Fool me once (which the administration and the Dems in Congress continue to do) shame on you....will it be fool me twice, shame on me?

"US Chamber of Commerce host seminars with Chinese government officials to teach American firms how to outsource jobs."

"Cutting the public out of public television: "analyses of PBS's major public affairs shows....features guestlists strongly dominated by white, male and elite sources, who are far more likely to represent corporations and war makers than environmentalists or peace advocates. And both funding and ownership of these shows is increasingly corporate,"

Union busting by the US in Iraq.

Why is the government protecting these bank fraudsters?  The banks would knowingly put garbage into the mortgage pools and trot it out to the investors while misrepresenting the product. Now, we’re learning, there was a whole new angle – some of the loans showed up in multiple pools.

More on GOP fascist authoritarian candidate Joe Miller: "not only was Joe Miller's excuse for why he had hired private guards a lie, but   two of the guards who handcuffed the journalist and threatened others are active-duty soldiers in the U.S. military: If it's not completely intolerable to have active-duty soldiers handcuffing American journalists on U.S. soil while acting as private "guards" for Senate candidates, what would be?  This is the sort of thing that the U.S. State Department would readily condemn if it happened in Egypt or Iran or Venezuela or Cuba:  active-duty soldiers detaining journalists while they're paid by politician candidates?